(28) Autosuggestion/Guided Imagery at the Center of Future Medicine

Presenter: Jean-Luc Mommaerts, MD, MSc

Objectives: Participants completing this presentation will be able to:

  1. Better imagine a future medicine with As/GI (Autosuggestion Guided Imagery) at its core.
  2. Use this to be drawn and let others be drawn towards this future, including policy makers worldwide.
  3. Have a clearer view on the relation between As/GI and regular medicine today.
Description: Imagine… a world in which conceptual mind and a conceptual soul have finally come together again… Imagine…a Garden of Eden in which eating apples of conceptual knowledge is permitted, nay, even encouraged, yet it remains a true Garden of Eden…

Imagine people being open-eyed and appreciative of what they see and fully live through: themselves, each other, and everything else that is immensely beautiful… Imagine… a world in which each person acts as a whole instead of a divided semblance of a mechanical construct… Then imagine the kind of medicine that would prevail in such a world.

The medicine of now is already the medicine of yesterday, a medicine of war against ‘the enemy’: disease. Its weapons are medications and surgery, and clearly something different is needed. Not a new kind of weaponry, but a complete change of paradigm. Autosuggestion and Guided Imagery (As/GI) will be central to this.

In the year 2108, a hundred years from now, ‘the enemy’ will have disappeared as such. Medicine will become a medicine of peace, of support, growth, wholeness, and communication with the deeper self. It will be part of a planetary surge towards being one: being un-divided as a person, being un-divided as a species. As/GI will shape the way we heal ourselves, as it will shape the way we look upon what it means to be human. Thereby, it will very much shape the future itself.